That's true. It seems that all that happens is that the messages (which are
persistent in my case) are maintained in the queue and do not get removed
until the acks are received. However, all the messages are still sent. I
assume they would be retransmitted at some point. It's quite interesting :).
Ed
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Matthias Radestock <matthias at lshift.net>
wrote:
> Edwin Fine wrote:
>> > ***** Actually, I believe I have turned off the no_ack flag and am
> > actively sending acks when appropriate. [...]
> > However, I must have done something wrong because RMQ continues to send
> > even if I haven't acked.
> >
>> You haven't done anything wrong. The no_ack flag controls whether the
> server expects to see acks from the client, or just auto-acks the messages
> itself. The flag does not affect the flow of messages.
>>> Matthias.
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